Olham

Thank you, Hauksbee I just downloaded GMAX and will try a first build after that tutorial. If I can get it right, I would be willing to make a model for BHaH, that is not yet in production. And I rely on you there, to help me. Hey, that might be fun!

Jasta 9, Sissone, 12. August 1918 Leutnant Leber Dear Kurt! You know, that he saved your life again this morning? I witnessed it; you should be grateful. There is something, I haven't told you yet (I had to make a first report to Hptm. Blume), and it is lying on my heart like a stone. I don't even know, if I understood him right, but it seems to me, that he felt something - that he knew... When we walked to our waiting craft this early morning, the Hauptmann murmured something, that I didn't understand first. But now I know, what he said: "Only half an hour left." And you know as well as I do, that with this morning's sortie, he would have reached the threatening 17-hour-mark. Will you come to my room after your report? I want to drink on him with you. Georg may also come later. I felt so helpless. Hope to see you. Theo (For the sordid details, see "Combat reports from the Front")

Hey, yes, that looks like I thought it might. I assume, that you draw those red lines for a Front, Side and Top view to get a 3D part. Must be more difficult to put them together the right way. And then, later, the propeller, wheels and rotary must turn! I was warned, that 3D modelling can be frustrating - seems to need patience and endurance? Not really my strengths - but I like building something. Why did you use a prog, not compatible to BHaH?

Hauksbee, I dislike the look of the D VII - a craft with an bulky inline engine. The D VIII had a rotary engine, only one high wing, and looks much better. It was an incredible aircraft - I have seen a photo, showing the whole workers crew sitting on the wing. Thanks for all the info. Is GMAX a freeware?

No life insurance will take you anymore then. That guy challenges death, like I do in BHaH. But for him, it could be fatal. The French driver in that old racing film from the sixties said to a female interviewer, when she asks him about the danger and his fears: "I think, as a racing driver, you just lack any phantasy. Otherwise, you could imagine, how terrible accidents could be."

Hi, Hauksbee and Stumpjumper Would you say, that someone who can work with graphic programs like Corel Draw, could also learn modelling with GMAX? Cause I would like to try to build the Fokker D VIII.

Welcome in the greatc world of "Over Flanders Fields", Jani! You will now go through some difficult times. 1. the waiting - you can't do anything but read the posts and "sticky threads" above (lots of good info) 2. the learning - this is better than any sim I know. That means, you will not be an instant pilot, nor an instant ace. You will have to suffer a while, if you want to reach full realism. But it is rewarding! 3. the dying - you will lose many good pilots, even when you have learnt it all. Sometimes you may shout: "Never again will I touch this killer sim!" Fortunately, I don't know anyone, who had that disease for more than two days. And if you need advice: somewhere on earth, there is always some pilot online. Cheers! Olham

Hey, WomenFly2 that's some idea! Can you come up with flight characteristics of that D VIII ? And I will investigate for the modelling program. I'm sure I can learn to build that craft. I think, Hauksbee will help me there. What d'you say?

Hi, Creaghorn Where did the Austrians fight? I still hope, we receive an OEFAG Albatros from the devels, and would like to fly it then. When my pilot from Jasta 9 dies or retires, I will start the new one in "Siggi/Creaghorn mode" - you two have shown, how it should be done.

Hell's Angels - for the great Zeppelin scenes alone The Blue Max and Aces High for the athmosphere of the airfields and fights then The Red Baron - for the feel of some (other, not the Baron's) Jasta, and (mostly) good aircraft scenes The Magnificent Men and their Flying Machines - for the great humour

If you are a fighter, you'll learn it. Flying first, fighting second. If not, you'll give up. I don't know anyone who managed to give it up for longer than two days. So, welcome to the addicts' mess, Jim. Rudder is essential on these crates. So you either get a good twist stick, or pedals. And one day, after many crashes, you won't understand anymore, why it first was so difficult. That's when the lady allows you to imagine, that YOU fly HER...

Regardless, I still have a devil of a time surviving in those things no matter what handles are there and/or function! They are my favorite fighter and I can't give them up. Hey? This man is sympathic to me.

Here you can learn some English poetry and wisdom. I must try to translate some of that. What does the "copybook heading" mean ?

It's a pleasure to help you, Red Dog, as you are here with so much enthusiasm and joy.

Go to "my controls" above right, there to "manage attachments" left side, down. There you can let show all the attachments you made. Often several pages (see page numbers at the top right). Throw away those, you don't think they would be looked at anymore (oldest pages or minor themes).

No, Red Dog, this doesn't happen to the ones we shoot down. Did you never realise, that Winder & Co. stop the planes from falling all the fatal way down ? It stops before, in mid air, and they are either regarded killed, or they can even carry on. No bloody war here. So calm down and carry on, fighter.

Ont this site, I only found one picture of the "Gisi" craft, where the handle is seen. www.earlyaviator.com Interesting site with loads of pictures, by the way. Edit: More pics with handle. These show best, that it was for the radiator.

Red Dog, I had to throw some old attachments away, as I had reached the max. attachment amount. If that's not the case - make sure, you don't have made the pics with more than one layer. It should be reduced on one (background) layer, before making the JPEG.

(From a distance, through the drone of an inline engine): "...Mmmuahahahahaaaaa!!!"

Oh, my! Sorry for you, Creaghorn, my condolences about your pilot. Next time, you better retire him - with so many sorties, hours and kills, he would have deserved it. And then, you can always leave him in the log book, retired, but alive. My best pilot is only just getting towards the 17 hour mark, with 17 confirmed kills. And even for him, I'm getting more and more nervous each sortie. He's in August 1918. Will he make it to the end of the war?

Hey, WomenFly2, here's some good post news for you and all: http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?s=&am...st&p=288544 But apart from that, I believe to know the devels good enough now to think, that they won't make any poll or debate about the next craft to come. They will rather go after history, importance, production numbers - not what anyone would LIKE to see. And so, I'm afraid your D VIII may have come too late and in too little numbers, to get included. (But I'd like her, too!)

Wow! Hats off to Rudyard Kipling! (Didn't know that artillery men read such prose?)

People who do this sort of thing have no brains, No, Tonyo, it's even worse. They have brains, but don't know what better things to do with them. Instead of being creative, they destroy. The lowest form of existence.

Ham, the death of the first pilots hurts most. But you'll get used to it after many flights. It will only get really good, when you accepted, that you're not good enough yet. Because then you begin to do things better and better. You let the desire go, to be an "instant ace" - and learn how to do it. And then, only then, you realise one day, that you have reached the 17 hour mark! I have three first names - Detlev Juergen Guenther - and so I use these three for 3 pilots. If one dies, I clear the log, and enlist another with the same name. I'm flying this sim since February 20st, I died a hundred times, and only now am I getting close to the 17 hour mark with also a good kill tally of 17 so far. And now, the nervousness returns on this pilot...

I like the last line of that review, said about "Over Flanders Fields": Nothing will ever top that! And now, back to the cockpits, gentlemen!...